Detachable link for drive-chains



(NG Model.)

I A. RITSCHER.

DBTAGIIABLE LINK POR DRIVE CHAINS.` No. 556,643, Patented Mar. 17, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM RI'ISCIIER, OF TAYLORVILLE, ILLINOIS.

DETACHABLE LINK FOR DRIVE-CHAINS.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,643, dated March 17, 1896.

Application filed August 22, 1895. Serial No. 560,121. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM Rirsonnn, of Taylorville, Christian county, Illinois, have invented a certa-in new and useful Improvement in Detachable Links for Drive-Chains, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of drivechain links known as detachable, and which are capa-ble of being coupled and unconpled; and briefly stated my invention consists in the formation of a detachable drivechain link having the loop of the link, the link-lugs, the link-connecting hooks, and also the conveyer-lights all formed integral.

My invention relates to drive-chains similar in appearance to those shown in my patents,No 514,7 711, dated February 13, 1894:, and No. 532,709, dated January 15, 1895, and my present invention is an improvement upon the chains shown in the said patents.

Figure I is a side elevation of an endless chain conveyenwheel and my improved chain applied thereto. Fig. II is a side elevation of a section of the chain. Fig. III is an edge View of the chain.

Referring to the drawings, A designates an endless-chain conveyer-Wheel similar to that shown in my Patent No. 514,774, dated February 13, 1894:.

1 designates the elliptical loop end of my improved link, which at one of its sides is reduced at 2 to permit detachable connection to the hook of the succeeding link. At one end of each loop l and formed integral therewith are end lugs 3, that project outwardly from the sides of the link, which lugs in the movement of the endless-chain conveyer-Wheel come in contact With the teeth 4 of said Wheel. As a continuance from the loop 1 and lugs 3 and located in the same plane as the lugs a hook 5 is formed integral with these parts, and to this hook the loop 1 of the adjoining link is connected by passing the reduced portion 2 of the loop through the hook-opening.

G designates the oblong conveyer-lights that are likewise formed integral with the link, lugs, and hook.

By the employment of a construction of detachable link for drive-chains in Which all parts are formed integral I provide a link that greatly reduces the Wearing-points, and Which in the manufacture is much less ei;- pensive owing to the material reduction of the number of separate pieces to be cast.

I claim as my invention- A detachable link for drive-chains formed in one piece with an elliptical loop 1 having reduced portions 2 located at one side thereof, with lugs 3 located at the side and at one end of the loop, with a hook 5 located in the same plane as the lugs, and with an oblong conveyer-ilight located between the loop and the hook in line with the lugs; substantially as described.

ADAM RITSGIIER.

In presence of E. R. WEIGHT, J. B. "WALKER 

